excited - Story 48088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house practically buzzed with anticipation. She grabbed her gardening journal, flipping through pages, already picturing the lush vines she would plant along the fence. No more awkward encounters with the overly friendly dog next door. A garden sanctuary!

A notification popped up, alerting her that the fence installation would begin next week. She clapped her hands together. The thought of a quiet, private backyard made her giddy. She raced outside, ready to begin preparing the soil.

"Finally!" she whispered to herself. This would be fantastic.

Emotion: excited

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.21 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion excited. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 excited stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the excited emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the excited vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.809
`!`	0.564
`excitedly`	0.500
`🤩`	0.491
`!"`	0.466

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.721
`ness`	-0.519
`😞`	-0.424
`grieve`	-0.310
`😔`	-0.300